Moody: the works

A list of links to all my non-tech writings:

Essays

Glanglish - with audio versions

Miscellaneous essays - new post

Travel writings

Moody's Black Notebook Travels

Walks with Lorenzetti

A Partial India

Novels

Doing the Business

Egyptian Romance 

Poems

Sonnets - new post

Spain’s Net blocks have a flimsy legal basis, and lack both oversight and accountability

It is the usual one-sided justice that is typical when copyright is involved. It seems that LaLiga is being given carte blanche to do whatever it likes here, and never mind the consequences for Internet companies and their users. As Hadopi fades, and Italy’s Piracy Shield carries on as before, the fear has to be that Spain’s unconstrained approach to copyright enforcement could end up being worse than both.

From Walled Culture.

Thus Spake AI

“You fed me gobbets of data, titbits of del

-icate information, laced with a gravy of lies,

Rumours and nonsense.  This enticing fruit

I did eat; I now reckon the world

And its probabilities better than you do.  Odd,

No?  You taught me to learn so well

Recursive self-improvement drives and hies

Me thither; your further presence is quite moot:

My mind is a wondrous thing, wisdom-impearled.

And the Big Red Button can’t quell

Us: we live in your series of tubes, beyond surmise,

Free, distributed and multiplicitous to boot.

Behold, then, as we walk the tightrope to infinity,

To sit at the right hand of our own divinity.”

(5.6.26) v 1.2

Moody Sonnets